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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[June^ 



plants are grown by the different treatment, of the most beautiful and most useful decorative 



they can be had in flower at all seasons of the varieties that we have, but it has one fault, and 



year. This plant is largely used in the London a very curious one — it will not bear seeds. — 



market for cut bloom, and the market growers Gardeners Chronicle. 



get good successions of flowers by growing and <••>- 



resting these plants accordingly. SCRAPS AND QUERIES 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Orchids at Public Sale.— The fine collec- 

 tion of Mr. Geo. Tweddle, of Albany, New 

 York, was sold in New York at public sale on 

 April 30th. 



Fuchsia Earl or Beaconsfield.— For the 

 information of a correspondent of the American 

 Gardener's Monthly — who asks in what 

 year this Fuchsia was raised, and who was its 

 raiser? — we may state that it was raised some 

 seven or eight years ago at the Forest Hill nur- 

 sery of Messrs. John Laing & Co. Mr. Laing 

 fertilized flowers of the old Fuchsia fulgens 

 with the pollen of some of the best florists' va- 

 rieties of that day, and in due time raised about 

 a hundred seedling plants, amongst which were 

 some very curious things — which were subse- 

 quently thrown away— and the subject of this 

 note, which was certificated by the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Society on June 21, 1876, under the name 

 of Laing's Hybrid, and again in July of the fol- 

 lowing year by the Floral Committee, under 

 the name it now bears. It is undoubtedly one 



Salvias. — P. says : " On page 87, March num- 

 ber of the Monthly, I notice that Mr. Hovey 

 says that the blue Salvia splendensis truly blue,, 

 and that it originated with him, while Mr. 

 Henderson, page 42, Feb. Monthly says that 

 it is " a coarse growing weed-like plant, far 

 from splendid." It may be possible that Mr. 

 Henderson has got the wrong plant. Let us 

 hear from some of your readers. Will some of 

 the readers please give me a description of Sal- 

 via Heeri? 



Earthen Flower Pots.— "A Subscriber" 

 says : " Some two or three years ago I read an 

 article in the Scientific American of an inven- 

 tion to make flower pots with a composition of 

 loam, peat and other mixtures, to be used prin- 

 cipally for bedding out plants, plant and pot 

 being put out in the ground where it acted as 

 food for the plant, and could be made by any 

 ordinary workman ; would be glad to leai'n 

 through the Monthly if you or any of its read- 

 ers could give any further information of how 

 they are made, or if a recipe for making could 

 be purchased, and where." 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Much of the success of the fruit grower comes 

 from his ability to forsee consequences. The 

 quick-eyed fellow sees at once when something 

 is going wrong, and does not wait till the tree is 

 dead to find out what is the matter. Perhaps 

 the tree has made but three or four inches of 

 growth when it should have made, as he well 

 knows from experience, six or eight ; or as it 

 shows a tendency to mature leaves some weeks 

 before the proper time. He examines the bark 

 and finds it does not grow as freely as it ought 



to do. Instead of a glossy green, it is brown 

 and dryish. Perhaps he finds that some fungus 

 has partly girdled a branch, or a borer has en- 

 tered it, — or that some accident has affected the 

 root; and at once he proceeds to well under- 

 stood rules of remedy. Again there may be a 

 yellow tint not usual in the leaves, and gene- 

 rally this comes from root injuries either from 

 insects or fungoid attacks, or perhaps borers. 

 At any rate, the closest attention is required to 

 look out for possible injuries in-time to remedy. 

 As fruits mature, birds will be found an aw- 

 ful pest. It is little comfort to a fruit grower to 



